It is Wednesday, and that means we are about to start properly talking about Abu Dhabi. I mentioned it on Monday, but it still doesn't seem like it's really happening yet. Hopefully, when the schedule appears, it will seem more exciting. Meanwhile, here's what we're talking about:
- Glock won't be back in Abu Dhabi, which RG talks about in his Timo dedicated blog. It's disappointing, as I think it's fair to say Glock has impressed this year. Let's hope he can move on to better things next year. Discuss on RG's blog or in our breakout thread here.
- Brazil was an interesting race all round, but Williams have opened up to allow their strategist to let us know how his weekend was. Stressful, is how I would describe it, but he describes it in much more interesting detail.
- It's worth pointing out some of the new updates we've posted on the new sidepodcast.com/blog page, where you can now share posts via Twitter and Facebook. There are more details my introductory comment, and please, please test this out for us if you get a chance.
That'll do for now. As mentioned above there'll be a schedule post along later in the day, and you may even get some podcast goodness today as well. I'll see you in the comments.
Oh not fair, I get the realtime doohickey all sussed out and it's time for bed. Meh, live and learn I guess! Night peeps.
computer still hates me, on psp. cheers for plug in the post mrs c
Hellooooo! Alphonso lives....
@alison. ...for now ;)
dont like internet on psp for long use, so night. lotsa love
Afternoon from NZL - I was jsut reading and commenting over on Keith's site on the re-fueling thread and someone made mention of fuel pumps in an unusual context.
"The double decker fuel pumps are a big fat angle on the rear wheel generate turbulence. The rear nonecone is the biggest culprit here. The fuel pump alone generates little turbulence, the steering wheel lots, together loads..."
I assume he means 'fuel pumps at a big fat angle" - but what fuel pump is he refering to? The fuel flap is down while racing. Any ideas?
Did you get him fixed?
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/10/26/goodbye-to%E2%80%A6-refuelling/comment-page-2/#comments
No. I bought a new tyre on the way to work and made an appointment to get his nose fixed on Monday.
I have no idea what he is on about. It doesn't make any sense to me.
Thanks Steven, I think I'll just leave it. I don't want to think too hard about it.
I am quite amazed to find that I made the first comment on that thread today as I haven't posted any comments on his site for some time. I did post that same comment some months ago but I am surprised Keith seems to be re-cycling comments. Must be part of the F1 green thing.
There is no such thing as a 'rear nosecone'
There is also not a fuel pump on the rear wheel and as far as I am aware there is no such thing as a double decker fuel pump.
I have left a comment pointing out that I didn't make the original comment
Well, you were the first comment, but only on page 2. ;) Still, you weren't the one that commented on that yesterday?
That is very odd, indeed.
Wait what? Someone is impersonating you Steven?
I haven't left a comment on that site in weeks. Someone has cut and pasted a comment I made at some time in the past and put it in as if I commented to that post. I assume it was Keith trying to drive comments by using it to provoke a reaction. I have now left a comment saying that I did not make the original comment so I will what happens.
Somewhat, in that someone's posting with his name. But if said guy is using exactly what he said... that's just very odd.
Makes sense.
Someone taking a comment I made there or somewhere else in the past and posting it as if it is current.
If anyone who frequents that site sees any more comments from me please let me know.
Will do. I'll keep an eye on it.
That's odd...
That's crazy!
If Keith has done it himself it just drops his site down a level in my view as it means you can't believe what you read on it. If anyone else has done it then it is beyond me to dream up the reason why they would.
OI!
Hola all
tis okay, that isn't going to happen here. have removed.
we are very scared of people impersonating others. the last person to do that turned out to be a complete psycho.
impersonating god is acceptable though, until he complains.
:D lest he send down a thunderbolt or someother. ;)
Sorry. I was only messing around. I think it's a bit mental. I'd be pretty creeped out.
How do you know that is an impersonator?
Clearly whoever impersonated me there was doing it for a joke which is a bit different to suggesting I am posting on a site when I am not.
Hi Joe
what is the topic?
don't worry, i know.
i can't fathom people out. like the person pretending to be the real vettel, makes no sense.
Dave from NZ asked about a comment he had read on F1 Fanatic that he didn't understand. I had a look at the thread only to discover that a detailed comment from me was on the same thread even though I haven't commented there in weeks/months.
...
good question.
of course. but, we are somewhat paranoid on the whole subject.
There's not really a way to solve it though is there.... Not without making it a membership thing.
It is easy in blog comments for anyone to pretend to be anyone else.
I guess you can link people to their IP address but obviously it's okay to comment from elsewhere.
that is coming, but it won't be mandatory. tis under the playground section of authentication (coming soon).
you can't stop loonies from commenting once, but you can at least prevent them from having a voice and another go. i manually deleted over a hundred comments from the person who was pretending to be someone else last weekend. it's a pain and a waste of time, but it has to be done.
better to avoid the whole thing.
i've seen it happen in jest at another place and that was confusing enough, without factoring in those with malicious intent..
we have more information than that. but in the end, stupid people will always "out" themselves, because they're can't help themselves.
membership would be a shame, but perhaps necessary... how about openID?
if it's optional, it's the best of both worlds, no?
openid is very much the plan, although facebook/google accounts are also viable.
hold on, someone was impersonating again that recently? you are clearly doing a good job because i had no idea. but it is a pain to have to do.
What is openID?
perhaps. they could still impersonate someone who hasn't opted in.
It was developed as a cross-platform log in system for blog comments, among other things. Say a blogger wanted to only allow comments from people who signed in. The commenter would have to have a login for Wordpress, and for another blog they'd have to have a login for Blogger, and Typepad, and whatever else. OpenID means one login for all systems
agreed. tis tricky.
Oh I see. I don't like the idea of that tbh. It doesn't suit my requirements and is all a bit centralised for my liking.
it's a decentralised system.
again though, it wouldn't be mandatory.
the one I remember was the previous weekend.
How does it work then? I don't understand.
I really like it. If you read lots of blogs it makes it easier to comment. If you don't I suppose it would be no different to typing your name in the Name box above here...
there are many providers and you can as many identities as suits you. you can create an openid just for spc if you like. he important thing is it tells us that you are you.
that's the one.
Funny how it is quiet at this time of night now that Nick has left the country
:D
Bedtime for me. See you tomorrow at some stage, don't forget the quiz.
night sir.
One less for the insomniacs club..
Night Pat
hello. I am off to buy a croissant
just the one?
Can you get me a couple as well?
i got two. Couldnt choose a filling so got both. Decisions suck
Fillings in a croissant? What kind of weird country is that?
ham and cheese! Is that not normal? The staff at the bakery are all french, i trusted them!
what???
Croissants don't have a filling. The closest thing you get to croissants with a filling are pain-au-chocolat which are made of the same stuff but are not crescent shaped and have chocolate as a filling.
oh. In this place they take normal crescent shared croissants and slice them them put a bit of cheese and ham in it then warm it til it melts. Very common actually, many places sell it like that.
I lived in Paris for a year and never saw that once. If you suggested that to a proper French person they wouldthink you were a savage
Mr C, you truly boggle the mind. Amazing stuff.
:D
i do my bestest :)
the owners must be french people who have adapted their sales methods for the locals. Plain ones are $1.90 and filled ones $4 so their profits are better too!
it sounds like you just bought a panini?
...and now i'm hungry.
Have you considered tripcodes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripcode
ahh, news to me. sounds a bit geeky though?
no not a panini! They are proper croissants just molested a little. I still have one of them i will eat later so i shall drop a photo when i get a chance
Perhaps, but it is an easy way to remove compulsory signups while giving people the option of validating who they are.
cheers. have added it to the list. figuring on getting around to all that stuff in december(ish).
I wouldn't let this in to the wild, but http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Tripcode gives a good enough example of implimentation.
4chan.org uses it. I just checked.
http://zip.4chan.org/o/imgboard.html
In the name field type: name#tripcode
it out puts name HG*SNSF93 (etc)
the HG*SNSF93 part is unique to the secret trip code entered.
Perhaps.
photo of half my spinach and cheese one is on the drop. Cant fit it in but its so tasty :(
drop.io it not be working for me :(
They are down for database maintenance and I am going to give my personal database a rest. I will see you all around lunch time to see if a piece of string can outwit NASA again.
String! Night Steven. ;)
F1Blog has a bit of a go at USF1 for not embracing new media:
http://www.formula1blog.com/2009/10/28/windsor-denies-usf1-rumors-f1b-slaps-their-hand/
Christine gets a mention too. :)
ahh, database maintenance.
night sir.
the same can be said about all the new teams though. i think it's simply a case of the mountain of work required to get a car to the grid means everything else is secondary.
i'm sure there will be live streaming web cams at some point next year. there's no real need for any pr right now, is there?
that's true. but then, that's why everybody will go questioning your credibility - because they can't see anything.
i guess it's just a matter of inconsistency, especially with USF1. i remember yesterday reading peter windsor saying that they'll do a reality TV show for their driver selection programme. we've heard nothing about that since - what happened? at the very least, i'd expect a working website, which they don't even have right now.
but do usf1 care, really?
fair enough. they thought they were entering a completely different championship, until fota pulled the rug from under them. i'd imagine all plans went to hell once that happened (not to mention how much the dealys must've impacted things).
i guess they don't. wouldn't do them any harm in getting sponsors, though. especially in the US where F1 has little visibility.
Fair point. But considering that had an earlier start (they came out before the budget cap was initially finalized), and they supposedly have more resources on hand (like that windtunnel), I was hoping they wouldn't be so badly affected.
by rights, they should be ahead of the competition, but the competition aren't really setting the world on fire either.
it's still quite possible none of the new teams will be ready by the first race.
they don't seem to have much PR other than Peter Windsor at the moment. Perhaps funding realities are hitting home, and they cannot afford web developers right now while trying to get cars on track
And that would be a horrible thought. well, at least we're guaranteed 10 teams whatever happens (QADBAK should get back in if any or all of the new teams don't make it).
What a farce that would be - 18 cars?
true. it's got to be considered though. the timeframe for doing this is crazy.
wed development would be bottom of my list, if i were windsor.
just like the 80s... ;) it'll make Brawn GP's saga last year look like a walk in the park in comparison.
*web.
i gotta sleep!
Wednesday or Wedding? Ahahaha! :D Go sleep, Mr C. ;)
very true. they only needed money.
these teams need money, a car, a factory, staff, motorhomes, sponsorship, clothing, drivers... and a web developer.
Hmmm. Depends if he still needs to attract funds I guess. Otherwise - spend the money on engineers
see ya tomorrow all.
Night Mr C. :)
Night Mr C
I wonder if these teams will jut put any old car on track, or hold back until they are really ready. We could have cars way outside 107% time in qualifying
I presume all teams that show up to a GP will race...no prequaly or anything
Well, the spec-like rules might actually help said new teams not be too embarrassing on their debuts. The 107% rule is no longer in place, though.
Last time round, pre-quali was only needed when there were more than 26 cars on the entry list. Since Qadbak was turned down, we don't even need to see if they would've reintroduced pre-quali for that purpose.
That was what I suspected, the watered-down F1 will be new-team-friendly
it isn't? So they can be seconds off the pace and still run. That could be........interesting
Most hurdles for new teams (like 107% and the entry bond) were removed, although 107% was abolished way back when one-shot quali was introduced in 2003.
Revenge of the F1 Rejects, quite possibly.
Rolling chicanes. I am looking forward to more cars on the grid
Well, if everyone turns up at the first race, with their half-sorted cars, what if they are 7 seconds off the pole sitter time? I guess there will be overtaking......
But backmarkers are now trained to jump out of the way as quickly as possible - a far cry from as recent as the 1990s. We shall see if the newbies need time to learn that. ;)
Only with blue flags, though. ;)
PK'll be so far back he'll think he's in front
It will be very interesting, if nothing else. I'm looking forward to everything about the new season, except for the lack of refueling
I think I'll hit the rack, got a guitar lesson tommorrow and need to accomplish stuff tommorrow so I can watch the World Series with a clear conscience and a buzzed brain
anyone going to watching the WS?
I'm looking forward to everything, including the refuelling ban. ;)
Anyhoo, gotta dash off to work. Sorry to leave ya, Paul - will be back in a couple of hours. :D
I am, I am, I am! :D
I have no idea of the time difference to here. I've seen some of the lead up games, but not sure if they were live
See ya :D
I knew you would. It's on at 2000 East coast.
You're 14 hours ahead of the East Coast, so games probably start 10 AM your time?
8 AM - perfect. :) Gonna love it tomorrow. Anyhoo, gotta go. Later, y'all. :)
Hmmm, makes it hard then - I'll be here at work. Replays it is then!
I'll be watching the game and on live, we can exchange barbs, Journeyer
Mmm... Sounds like a good idea. Who ya rootin for?
Morning :)
Afternoon :D
Touche
one could even go so far as to say "evening"
Could one? Really? Surely it's too early for all that. What time is it?
#MFC An internet only version of Eastenders: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6406812/BBC-to-show-E20-EastEnders-spin-off-on-internet.html
*spin off
5.14pm. My grandparents would be finished their dinner by this time of night.
That's grandparents for you though.
It's not evening until after 6 and even then it's pushing it - I reckon.
I agree.
But it would surely be evening near the International Date Line by now. ;)
Morning, whilst lying in the sun reading F1 racing i noticed an interesting advert for Mercedes congratulating Brawn... opposite a fascinating pice on Ide...
Is Ide now part of the Whatever Happened To series? :D
so it isn't evening anywhere? No! In your face evening!
hehe not quite! he was in a feature on the "worst f1 drivers of all time..."
still evening here for another 1/2 hour
Perfect for F1 Rejects. :D
anyone know where the best place to look for f1 driver appearences is?
I shall have a google...
Steven - you're not the only one with someone replicating posts.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/forum/topic.php?id=842#post-5944
Morning,
Has someone cloned Steven Roy?
Morning
Well hello there. You enjoying yourself?
Its touch... but i do these things so others dont have to ;)
Yup. Reposted an old comment of his with his name. We thought it was an isolated case. Looks like he's not alone.
*tough
:P There's an Abu Dhabi article there, from what I saw?
I'm not jealous! I don't do sun.
0
In F1 racing? Yeah... a bit, but i dont think there is much i dont know about it ;)
Who mentioned being jealous? :P
You just slipped in the bit about lying in the sun for posterity's sake then.
I like to be accurate... ;)
Gee... I wonder who is doing that? ;)
Where is here Aitch?
Probably somewhere in the Americas?
Heavens, no. If we're thinking the same thing, that would be disastrous over there.
Well whoever it is needs to be stopped. I have my suspicions, as it's the next step as far as I am concerned...
Of course. No harm in that. Weren't you out there for boring meetings though? I don't think anyone's gonna be jealous of that.
Indeed. Steven's lucky in that the comment posted in his name was an identical copy of an old comment of his. Others weren't as lucky.
I only have 2, nothing today though... guess i should be dubaian and head to a mall or 2. this balcony is lovely though ;)
I wish I was in charge of the Internets. I would make everybody reference GMT whenever talking about when something was on.
For example, instead of saying it was on at 8am in Sydney, they would have to add "which is GMT +11 at the time this event happens" to the end
West coast of Canada, Surrey British Columbia
You keep bringing this up.... Honestly, it doesn't bother me. I hate the sun!
hehe you really love GMT :D
I was very confused as whether it was 3 or 4 hours difference when i got here!
Is that all? That's crazy. I think I've got my geography very confused.....
There is a quite famous chain of UK places Pret a Manger which has exactly this thing. But with tomato as well. Very nice.
Here is a a french website explaining how to make them: http://www.certiferme.com/recette/recette-croissants-jambon-fromage-15093.html
No leaks in this media center. Pic from Mr Noble.
It looks an awful lot like mission control in Houston (minus the machines).
Nick, fourstar, who you av met, is going to follow you on twitter, if you follow back, you can exchange info and maybe meet up?
Yummy. We do croissants right
Does GMT have daylight saving?
Brown rice just isn't as nice as the white stuff. And is a lot harder to cook in the microwave
Not that I'm aware of. Isn't GMT with daylight saving effectively BST?
I guess?
Yeah... But GMT doesn't move that's the point of it.
London's time zone is not GMT but GMT + 0 or GMT +1 (BST)
Interestingly the reason for GMT is because of trains in America.
The reason for dailight savings is often ascribed to a guy who liked to ride his horse before breakfast and was upset by how so many other people didn't get the chance to enjoy the summer!!! Most countries in Europe have Summer time because of him. But the actual inventor was a Brit living in New Zealand called George Vernon Hudson.
The horse thing is obviously untrue! BST gives you less light in the mornings for horse riding fun.
I know it's all very strange. His crazy plan was to advance time by 20 minutes every week over Summer! So you'd never have a clue what was going on. He's also apparently the Great Great Grandfather of Coldplays Chris Martin... But of course that last bit is from Wikipedia so it's almost certainly a lie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Willett
I just fell asleep and had the weirest dream ever. I was back at mum and dads in NZ, and I was watching a boat go past out on the harbour. It was an aircraft carrier, and there were people dancing on the back of it. It was Nico in his Williams gear, but with a long blonde wig on, and he was doing square dancing for a commercial.
Woah. I'm scared to go back to sleep.
yay for legitimite dinner!
Waaaaaaaaah!! Terrifying!
it was one of those creepy vivid dreams. After I realised it was him I went on SPC and left a comment that simply said "Nico is filming an ad outside my house"
Morning. My dad is annoyingly intelligent. http://smarterthanyouraverage.com/2009/10/27/now-were-back-together/#comment-1706
I hate the way their hindsight always seems to work really well.
:D
I love how he just refers to himself as "Dad" on your blog :D
Mine doesn't even read my blog :(
I'm glad my dad doesn't know about blogs - I would have to explain them to him. Then show him how to get to them. etc, etc
Aww. Just convince him that it's a good way of keeping up with what you're doing.
good morning, or afternoon
Or in your case, 1 millionth of what you do
Mine is good with Tech - he has a mac, an iPod touch, his house is wi-fi'd and he just bought a blu-ray player. I have mentioned my blog a few times and he didn't say nothing :(
You need to turn your awesome plugging skills towards your dad.
Well, yes. I don't want to overload him with information yet :)
I know my dad's first question would be "why do you do that", and then I would have to think of a reason
I know - I'll ask him if I can post his photos of the Te Papa F1 exhibit that Amy went to...
There is also a web-only Casualty special on Halloween. Only problem is they're calling it a "mobisode."
So close!
Ah but questions like that can always be turned around.
"Why do you do what you do?"
I told my parents I have a blog so they can track me around Europe but I didn't tell them the URL. And I haven't updated in a long time.
Update it today.
I have nothing to say, really.
I would like to hear why you want to go to Zurich and what you think you might do there.
my friend lives there and I was going to go visit her but when I was in NZ I spoke to a couple of friends who have recently returned from Europe and didn't get a chance to catch up with her because she works 24/7. So I might take it off my list because time is precious. The end. :D
As a blog reader, I would be interested to know if you were dropping one off your list. I'm sure you could stretch a couple of paragraphs out of that.
I'll see what I can drum up. But first, dinner. After I woke up after my creepy-Nico-nap I looked at my watch and saw it was 7.45 and I freaked out that I would be late for work because "wow I slept until morning!". But then I picked up my phone and it said PM and all was well.
Some people just have a talent. Why, they can make bits of white plastic into a story
My wife has had to explain to my mother in law why I would want a subscription for a magazine that I only look at on a computer ... good luck to her!
Hehehe.
The thing is not to be scared that you have nothing to say. And not to panic if you don't feel like writing loads. It just takes the right question or thought to kick off a post.
I've been intending to update about my trip to NZ but I didn't really do anything except get sad about coming back to Melbourne. And I forgot to take any photos.
I take the easy way out my not having a blog
It could still be an interesting post. I'm sure you did do something, but if not, maybe talk about what it was like to go back there, whether it felt different or the same.
I have never lived in another country, so I can't imagine what that is like. Why don't you tell me? ;)
I would like to take this time to clear my sins and say I have had my Kindle for less than a week and I'm already reading a pirated book on it. Because I was half finished the paper version that I legitimately own but I am kind of hooked on reading in a MFC like way and Amazon won't sell me a Kindle copy.
Booo.
That is what I was thinking of writing, it is rolling around in my head like a snowball collecting extra thoughts and words :D
By the way, I hope you are either going to write a guest post for MFC reviewing the Kindle, or recording a review for the MFC podcast. I am awaiting it in anticipation.
I shall do a guest post but I won't mention the law breaking :D
hehe I find the twitter accounts amusing for a while, David Mitchell has a twitter and someone started another claimed to be him and that the real David Mitchell account was in fact a fake.
:)
I can only blog when I have F1 thoughts ;)
That would be good :)
Do you have any F1 thoughts today?
Oh you must Amy. I really want to here what that thing is like
Nope. :P
Hmm. Will have to work on that. :)
oh no... :P
Considering your blog is named after Mr Mosley, I don't see any thoughts on the new President.
The new guy hasn't really done anything yet though.
But he has. He's announced some commissioners
....which I think is a great idea
Do you think it's a good idea James? ;)
of which I am unaware of :P
stop trying to make me blog :)
What about poor Glock? Are Toyota covering up something? Will he drive for them next year? Has Kobayashi done enough for a seat?
People need to know what you think!!
They do. RG especially. poor Glock
In an attempt to distract people from blogging,
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/cambio-de-look-en-el-r29-alonso-sera-agresivo-grande-3284-1-1-jpg
is that real?
Ooo. I hope
is that from AUTOSPORT? it could easily be Photoshop.
thats what I think, I found it just searching for the yellow and black livery after Lukeh tweeted something.
hooray I just booked my parents flights to come see me. My dad doesn't even want to but ha! he has paid for it now. And I have 6 months to talk him round.
That's such a dad answer!
You're such a Kiwi ;)
Basically it's the same, except they talk funny and the TV's not as good :D
How on earth are you so organised? I can't even bring myself to book GP tickets for Melbourne yet
How do Dad's know this stuff? Are there secret lessons I wonder?
my parents are like me, they like cheap. So they said 'ring us as soon as you see Air NZ have a sale'
You should totally book your GP tickets soon for the GP Advantage membership.
This is good. I want to read it too!
Here's a thought on Kindle and e-paper:
Often I print stuff out because I view a paper document differently to a computer screen. How do you view a Kindle? Like Paper or like a monitor?
Also, I have good eyesight but I need glasses to use a computer (my eyes get too tired). However I find that I can read for ages without glasses without sore eyes. Is the Kindle more like a book or a monitor in that sense?
Answers in a blog post please ;)
I think you should tell him that if it wasn't completely deflated and you put the plug back in, it could have been damaged in transit.
yes, I know I should. First I have to decide where to site tho!
I actually read something the other day that said a Kindle is easier to read than a book because the screen is totally flat whereas with a book the page curves in towards the spine so your eyes have to refocus a little on every line. I don't know if thats true. I shall elaborate in blog ;)
any of the 4 corners packages are great. I like Fangio on Sunday because I love watching all the grid prep and the podium, but a lot of people hate Fangio since theres no corners so everytime you see the cars they are at top speed. I think seeing the cars sitting on the grid and the drivers milling around running away from Brundle makes up for that, but obviously other people don't :D
Sounds like myth. I think that if you don't hold the Kindle perpendicular to your line of sight then the same thing will still happen.....
It looks photoshopped but basically it's saying "COME ON RENAULT, STOP CHUFFING ABOUT AND GIVE US A PROPER LIVERY" or something ;)
Hmmm. Thanks for that. I was thinking the first corner, but I like your argument. I will look again.
YAY!
In fact thinking about it, unless you have some sort of autocue system, you're always going to have to refocus on what you're reading. It's normal.
First corner is one of the only ones I haven't sat at, I would give you a review but my seat there is for Thursday next year so that might be a little late :D
Well, I hadn't thought about a 4 corner thing, so I will look at that. I also need my brother to decide if he is going to break his honeymoon to come to the race!
although from memory my flatmates complaint at first corner was because of the twilight starting time if you are in the stand on the inside of the corner (Brabham) you are staring into the sun the whole time but the stand on the outside of it (Jones) should be fine.
She was thus very angry about the twilight race :D
Nice one :)
:)
Christine, I am blogging right now ;)
Why does it need to be so hard? I'm not good at decisions
I have many thoughts about why I shouldn't have to go to work now :(
Woohoo!!
Right. Who's next?
Fourstar comes out with them at work, we should use him to our advantage.
I know the feeling. Hence my two-croissant lunch.
Alas if I blogged about my thoughts right now, I'd probably lose my job! It would leave me plenty more free time for more blogging though.
also, if you do get Advantage tickets make sure you are in Melbourne in time for the Wednesday behind the scenes tour. It's the really worthwhile part of Advantage membership, the rest of it is a bit of a joke.
Well I owe you a guest post... But I can't blog now because I'm at work.
Amy, I would be interested to read a blog post from you about what it was like to send me to Paris.
Hmm. That is a legitimate excuse.
Mini post whilst I work on another ;)
http://f1loonie.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/19-the-race-of-lasts/
I just realised I missed out post 18, why I don't know.
If I were you, I'd just ditch the numebrs - it's really going to start confusing people soon!
I just want to ditch the blog but I keep being told to write on it ;)
But you are good at it!
Sorry about that
Love that Christine has asked a question on James Blog!
Another day off. Hmmmm. OK
8-O
If you hadn't said anything Alex I wouldn't have known :)
See we read your blog James :) Because we like it when you blog.
:)
now I just have to make out I forgot post 18 on purpose ;)
The number 18 is overrated, I reckon.
Gets in the way of 19 and 20
You can return the favour by going over to Christine's blog and telling her what you wanted to be when you grew up: http://smarterthanyouraverage.com/2009/10/28/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/
There's no way I'm telling anyone
Ballerina?
No.:D
I told my story but I didn't mention the words that came out of my mothers mouth when I had to told her of my rejection letter.
I will give it some thought, I'm young and have no idea :P
A couple of articles have been posted on it, so I took a look at the FOTA site.
Remember the articles before that said all new teams have applied, with USF1 the only confirmed accepted team so far?
http://www.teamsassociation.org/
4 new teams, yet only 1 new logo. And not of the one who we thought was confirmed. Hmmm.
Did she refer to you as a flamin’ galah? Or is that more of an Australian thing?
The first word did start with F but it was not flamin'
I also didn't mention that I did have a second attempt but when you do that they average your two years worth of marks. And my second mark was good enough but my average wasn't. Boooo.
Amy and I seem to have had very similar ambitions back in life - I left a reply to your comment too, Amy. ;)
You MUST be joking.
Really. Gah.
I was just followed by somebody on twitter. I don't want to mention their name just in case... But he is currently, as I look, the number 1 person on my followers page: http://twitter.com/alexandronov/followers
Is this the guy I want to block?
Indeed.
Done. He had never followed me so I hadn't ever needed to.
Thanks.
I can't quite understand why Bernie gave them a 17 year deal, when it was obvious they couldn't even work out year 1.
The FOTA is so boring. :(
Oops I meant FOTA site ;)
Simple - to keep Silverstone out of the equation - for a long time. I think it was politically motivated.
Now there are some people speculating the money might've come from Mr E himself. Hmmm.
Okay, but Silverstone have been consistently in the news as much as Donington, so that didn't work, did it?
I was about to say it's better than the USF1 site, but it seems to have made at least a little bit of progress at last:
http://www.usgpe.com/
Bernie really needs to be next on the chopping block, and his banker friends
But as long as Donington gets the deal, Silverstone is locked out, no matter how much publicity it got.
Won't happen, sadly. Unless someone bigger than them buys it from them.
Wasn't he holding talks with them recently?
F1 just doesn't embrace the internet that well.
Yeah I know. I hate the way that works
He was, but that talk seems to have quieted down again. Looks like they couldn't agree on financial terms.
Why would he bother to talk to them if he wants to lock them out?
:D Because the really good techie folks start their own thing rather than become employees.
Perhaps because he had no other choice? So to minimize the damage, he milks them for what they're worth, and the BRDC says no.
It could possibly be just so Bernie can say he tried his best, but it wasn't good enough.
I'd do it for just for the fact its F1 although I would need to paid ;)
Mm. Doesn't make any sense to me but I'm sure Bernie's aims will become apparent soon.
Soon should've happened a long time ago. How much longer must we wait?
We can be sure the sport is not at the top of his agenda
Probably till about June.
It's bed time. Night folks
I'm tempted to number my new post 18 because I forgot it. or should I go to 20 or drop the number all together?
I'm not a-twitter. Am I missing something?
Night Paul.
Nothing major. We have been fighting off unwanted attentions for months, and the problem appears to be spreading to commentors far and wide.
Some facts about Abu Dhabi: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79801
I always thought water was clear :)
E-stalking? Beastly.
Mind you, several of my colleagues are being pestered on Twitter by some goon. "Read my blog!" "Sign my petition!" Etc.
I bet the Yas Hotel is mighty expensive to stay in but gosh, it'd be convenient.
It's reflecting the colour of the sky.
I know. That's why the coast in the UK is always grey.
Although I can't remember why rivers are sometimes green. It must be scattering the reflection.
The blue danube was pretty green the last time I saw it.
I remember going to a caravan park when I was little and there was an unused swimming pool that was pretty green. I don't think that was the sky either.
the river that Melbourne is so proud of is gross and brown
they say its because its a mud-bottomed river but everyone knows its just because its gross and dirty. They found some deformed fish living in there, thats how rancid it is.
Well that was probably algae.
The Thames is pretty brown. But it is much cleaner than it used to be.
Mm. At the time, we thought it must be a dead body.
#amyfacts the major streets in my hometown are named after rivers in Britain. Thames Street is the main street in town.
Because we get a kick out of your compliments ;)
Also, If I appropriately link to a blog post in a comment left on another's blog, it adds to the discussion, gets new exposure for my blog and increases the hits. All good stuff :D
With legs? Two heads? Just curious.
I've blogged again, but I decided not to talk about Glock because I may start a conspircay if I blog my thoughts on that.
instead i've chosen favourite f1 liveries ;)
http://f1loonie.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/20-favourite-f1-liveries/
brilliant. :) have you seen ollie's articles on f1 livery evolutions?
*Ollie of BlogF1
I reckon you should ditch the numbers, personally..
Indeed, thats how I found out about the yellow and black Renault in the first place :D
Quite. However, this particular person is an attention-seeking pest, and their site consists of rehashed non-news. It's like being stalked by GMM...
There are people who don't know who Ollie is?? I won't hear of it!
I thought about it, but then the posts with numbers would look odd. I will when I start another blog though :)
they looked like this
no, actually my googling has found that the problem with them was they had 5x the safe level of mercury and arsenic in them and eating them would cause kidney and liver damage.
Fair enough then!
Another blog! YAY!
Although I have no subject for said blog. It is just a dream at this point ;)
when the MP4-20 is the first car I see, I know I will like the post.
I can probably
bullyhelp you there :)hehe :D
:D :D :D
on a serious note, i hope it's not enough to deter people from microblogging.
having knowledgeable f1 people tweeting this year has really, really made a big difference to us. have you/they tried the 'block' option?
I'm glad that James has decided to start his new blog today :)
I have? :lol:
:)
A fish that looks like a three-eyed Lisa Simpson? Imagine what it would be like to have one of them wriggling on the hook...
May even start one myself in the new year, once I've got a bit of time, etc.
I'll make the suggestion. Haven't done Twitter yet, but I might do "when I get the time" (etc).
As soon as you do, you'll be added to my links page because I am sure what you have to say will be very interesting.
By the way, have you read my blog? ;)
I have an F1 related question (what do I think this is, an F1 site?)
Webber has 3 fastest laps so far. Button, Vettel, Barrichello and Alonso all have 2 each. If one of those four gets the fastest lap at Abu Dhabi, who wins the DHL award?
Also commented :D
Oooh, a new victim to pester :)
Question for those who will look at fuel-corrected qualifying:
Does anyone know where I can find a consumption figure in kg/lap and penalty figure in sec/kg for Aboo Daboo Dabby?
oh I have my answer by looking at what happened in 2007.
Raikkonen and Massa both set six fastest laps and two second-fastest laps during the season. Raikkonen takes the Award by virtue of setting three third-fastest laps to Massa's two.
:D
I'm not on there, mind you my blog has no purpose other than random thoughts :P
Quick run before Christine says anything more :D
Hey, no problem - remind me later and I'll put you on ;)
Yes, although numbers make my head spin (just ask my long-suffering accountant).
I remember helping to lay out that page/panel in a magazine. It was done before the final race, owing to print deadlines. Someone at the client (DHL) end insisted that Massa would be the recipient, so it all ended up having to be changed very late in the day.
Oh, Jake. http://twitpic.com/n5736 Ahahaha!
BTW, are there any changes to the Red Button channels? I saw something to that effect, and that it might affect F1.
someone should have told DHL that Finns are awesome.
From Mr Roberts:
:D
But the graphics are worrying - good thing it's only for PSP and Wii.
F1 Badger Meets Crofty and Ant
Good interview - seems like Crofty Jr. might end up being a commentator too!
I think this is MFC related...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Iup7iDaeQ
needs updating with windows 7 though.
sometimes I get nostalgic for the fun I had in Windows 3.1, even if I can't work out how I ever spent so much time on a computer that didn't have the internet.
#mfc
Net pirates to be 'disconnected'
To be honest, I don't even know if this is policeable. This is just like DRM - poses more problems than solutions.
you mean on SPC? where should we add that info?
damn him!
I don't like GMT. I never know which time zone I am in with respect to it and I never know how to convert it into other time zones even though its really only simple maths. I suck.
Someone has sent me one of those "we can get you great Google ranking" emails, and it begins:
Dear Webmaster of Christine,
A new title for myself, I believe.
Webmaster of Christine....on the internet
:P
Winner. :D
Oooh, now we're getting somewhere :)
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=39435
I wish I could find £12 million
Oooh, I broke the pinger.
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/10/28/abu-dhabi-schedule/
Not so I could win this round, honest.
Christine -1, Pinger - 0.
I done commented there too, Steve.
corrected. ;)
I forgot to add my work experience experiences so I commented again ;)
I cheated anyway. Not sure facts matter!
Have you tried looking behind the fridge?
Yes, and down the back of the couch
under the mattress? through all you trouser pockets?
Can't edit wiki... But that's got to be a slogan (subtitle thingame)...
Sidepodcast: Not sure facts matter!
Have you asked your rich exchange student friend?
I just realised, it is Bernie Ecclestone's birthday today 8O
I'm trying to think were I last saw it and no matter how hard I think, I keep coming to the conclusion I never had it in the first place
:D
12-million pound present from Mr Gillett, then. ;)
£12 million birthday present? Isn't that kind of Gillett?
Great minds... ;)
Monkey see...
In my trouser pocket I have... £7.99
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-324
"If you pay peanuts, you get Monkeys"?
Just £11999992 and 1p to go
I don't have any cash on me - 99% of stuff in Denmark can be paid with a cash card!
We're getting there!
I have £6.59. I was hoping to get some lunch, but your need is greater than mine.
What, even with pretty graphs? ;)
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
I was just about to get some lunch... Hmmm... This isn't looking good for the British Grand Prix.
This conversation has taken a serendipitous turn – reminded me to take out some cash before blundering in to M&S...
STOP! Do you really need that sandwich? Wouldn't you rather save the British Grand Prix?
Then send your lunch money to Simon Gillett. Remember, you may go hungry, but it will be worth it so you'll get to eat all the dodgy overpriced pies you want at the 2010 British Grand Prix :D
You can always rely on the comments.
Ahahahahahaha!
are you off to buy Heikki clothes?
See, that's where Gillett went wrong - instead of asking us to buy expensive debentures, he should have been asking for lunch money!
For Amy: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/oh-joy/
They help. What you need, though, is more Venn diagrams. There aren't enough Venn diagrams in the world.
Don't send it to Gillett. He doesn't eat lunch anyway (he comes out in the night to drink blood from passing virgins). Send it to me as I'm going to run the British Grand Prix around the Malverns - "The English Spa" without a Tilke corner in sight.
Roger that! Wait until the off season though ;)
Just remember to get some out for my British GP enterprise
Looks like groundhog day at NASA. They are at T-4 minutes and holding again/still. I assume things are not good as they have just switched to showing videos of yesterday when nothing happened. They are showing us all the various flight controllers sitting looking at their screens.
Wow, Lotus is really becoming a reunion of ex-Ferrari men. But I'm not sure he's qualified to even run those programs...
Definitely. I'm a bit Hank.
Brad, is that a piece of string?
I think it is, Ross, how are we going to get rid of it?
Don't look at me, I'm just on a week's work placement
Me too
NASA and Gillett should combine forces, can you imagine the results? Well, I guess there wouldn't be any except for miles of column inches.
sidepodspace
The weather is being unco-operative. Honest it is. The weather aircraft are re-fuelling. The current launch time is 1:15pm UK time although NASA TV reckon that the weather makes it more likely that the lauch wil be a bit nearer 2:30pm.
So we are in for a long wait before they even pull off the bit of string unless they have done that already.
I had to google who he was :D
That is a fabulous idea. They could do some of the biggest deals in history and just not deliver. I suppose at least NASA can raisethe budet they need.
He's the annoying fat bloke with the goatee that's always in view of the camera in the Ferrari pits, and yet no-one knows who he is or what he does...
Not with Gillett in charge of it
does he?
Why does that make him annoying?
Does he... what?
I dunno, ask Amy!
Or Joe. ;) Although Japan 2008 does come to mind.
As Mr Noble says:
What happened there?
To me, he's just annoying because he has to be on camera all the time, like THAT WOMAN or something...
Eddie Jordan?
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/06/21/live-supporting-the-f1-loonies/#comment-364664
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/08/28/live-belgium-free-practice-1/#comment-457023
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/04/25/live-bahrain-free-practice-3/#comment-274143
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/06/07/live-turkey-the-race/#comment-337771
Fistpump after Massa collided with Lewis, causing the Macca to spin. He was also one of the raucous ones when Massa won in Brazil... then didn't.
Eddie Jordan is annoying when he isn't silent!
He is just one of these people everyone takes an instant dislike to. He has a thoroughly unpleasant manner even when he is standing still doing nothing.
Mr C, I really like the search :)
And the Ferrari uniform doesn't help ;-)
AWESOME!!!
Detective Kathi has even more power now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl5aMMRgTEk
Go to the end - you see him with the fistpump before the screen fades out.
I still don't know what Massa was doing there!
yay. working like crazy to bring more updates this evening.
ahhhh. scary.
I ran out of stamps and I'm too lazy to go and buy new ones so I had to use my Kimi-is-worldchampion one. I'm a rubbish fangirl.
know what he does?
Professional Dogsbody I think...
:)
#sorryamy
that would've been worth a lot someday. :P
Pah! and they are still available: https://verkkokauppa.posti.fi/PublishedService?file=page&pageID=9&itemcode=08049
:D
#sidepodspace
I think NASA have stopped believeing their weather people. They are now planing to launch at 2:40 but will pull it orward if the weather clears. They must spend more than anyone on the planet on weather forecasting and they just admitted that they have no idea what is going to happen.
Yesterday we discussed how suitable that part of Florida is for launches. NASA just said that last night within 5 miles of the rocket there were 154 lightning strikes. That sounds like a really bad place to be to me.
Afffffffffternoon!!
biggest.stamp.ever
You can tell its a slow news day when a story thats 6 days old is under the breaking news section of autosport
5LiveF1 has posted some pics of the side of Yas Marina we don't see. Great fun. ;)
nice one.
hey jon.
Who says lightning doesn't strike twice?
I wonder why they don't usually show this side of Yas Marina? ;-)
Yo. I'm starting to think Wednesdays are just pointless
Got a link?
They just delay the inevitable Thursday, perhaps we should skip straight through to Friday. About 5pm.
http://twitter.com/5LiveF1
Just go here - http://twitter.com/5LiveF1
too many to post all of them. :D
Anyone seen this, more Ant and Crofty on the new F1 game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w_jKctrgJE
or here: http://twitpic.com/photos/5LiveF1
My inbox has just pinged with 'news' of another Brawn one-off sponsor.
It's not SPC is it?
Another one? Who?
Qatar Telecom?
what does anyone use to update facebook via twitter updates?
Q-Tel, indeed: http://www.ameinfo.com/214105.html
Ooooooh!
Them. Yes. Would have been funnier if it was Qatar Hero.
hehe!
Listening to freebird live from the Old Grey Whistle Test...
This has hand over hand playing, a half dressed drummer and of course the most crazy guitar solo of all time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTQUtx818w
Ahahaha. :D
haha :D
Seems that everyone has season fatigue. Even GMM have given up. How many races are they hoping to have next year again?
I've only just got that. :-D Need. More. Sleep.
Hehehehe. :D Of course GMM gave up - none of their sources are producing anything.
Ooohhh... there is a new team logo on the FOTA website
Brought it up earlier - no USF1, though, even though PW said their membership is confirmed...
Mav - you'll be doing the quiz tonight? Any clue as to the topics?
Brilliant: Trulli and Sutil are both in the FIA press conference. Round 2?
:D
A clue? You'll have a gay old time!
I still don't like that site, but at least Campos META have a logo :)
I don't remember it having such an abrupt ending before. Christine would not have like that on the Debrief
Flintstone racing
Abu Dhabi Doo. :D
NASA TV seem to have given up speaking completely. I literally have no idea what is going on. I guess that qualifies me for mission control
F1 cars with bottom removed and the drivers just have to run as fast as possible?
That'll be the one
That will get rid of downforce and all the aero problems
But the place hasn't even hosted an F1 race yet...
"The server at www.camposmeta.com is taking too long to respond" :-( They've gone all USF1
Works for me.
It could be a short quiz ;-)
NASA TV are reading the comments. Launch at 3pm. I am not overly optimistic it will happen.
Worked instantly for me
:P At least I get an hour more of sleep before it all gets underway. ;)
The computer I'm on seems to have a major problem with spanish based websites
It is not worth visiting. ne page with contact details and one with job vacancies. They need a race team going by the vacancies list.
I'm in. Anyone else here applying to be chief race engineer, don't want to tread on any toes?
hehe i was tempted to email them for information regarding their entry but then realised that they'd wouldn't give me a thing.
I have a plan to use Flavio as a reference and hope that they're too scared to check with him
:lol:
did sidepodcast look at just driver websites or the teams as well?
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/06/13/this-is-how-the-teams-do-it-part-1/
thank you :)
Teams as well
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/06/13/this-is-how-the-teams-do-it-part-1/
There were two parts but the wiki link for part two is wrong
Part 2
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/06/16/this-is-how-the-teams-do-it-part-2/
I have sorted the link on the wiki. Team site details etc are on the same page http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Team+Links
thanks Steven :)
should we be worried? the Renault site says there are 4 days and 3 hours until Abu Dhabi, Williams say 3 days and 22 hours and Force India say 4 days and 1 hour.
Ferrari has improved as has Toyota for the most part although it, like Renault, takes an age to load, Williams still has the annoying bubbles - why? If they were annoying floaty f1 cars I could maybe understand it.
I wonder if Mr C gave them times and dates.
Do they ever match up? BBC have free practice 1 wrong too unless they're not showing it live
oi!
sounds like we should have another look during the off season :)
Finally someone at NASA who can speak correctly. Yesterday the kept talking about delays due to tribal electrification. I was pretty sure no-one ever electrified tribes but they were mis-treated so who knows.
Now that someone who can peak properly has said it I know they are talking about tribo electrification which is very different.
that off season will just fly by ;)
already we have too much stuff to fit in, and that assumes no-one comes up with a single new idea.
is the season over yet?
I just noticed the cost of this test flight to NASA as I closed the page. $445 million. How can it possibly cost that much? Most of the stuff on that rocket is not real. The whole top half of it is a dummy with some telemetry instruments. I think they need to sort out their purchasing.
Now, I've got this awesome idea for a show you might like..... ;)
+2 hours
heeeh!
you just know that is going to happen :P
NASA will resume the T-4 minutescount at 15:20 if the weather is good. Somehow I don't think it will fly today
As a former employer of mine once said, "Your time is more expensive than grapefruit..."
You'd be wasted on NASA :-)
If I was running it I would not be planning launches with a 40% chance of good weather and I wouldn't pay $445 million to launch a dummy rocket on top of a shuttle booster than has flown 120 odd times.
At that price you think they could afford proper string
James, I've linked to your blog.
Dank and Alia, I have updated links to yours ;)
Put like that, you would think that it wasn't, er, rocket science...
thank you very much :)
No problem. Now you have to promise to keep writing ;)
you need a wiki and then tell people to update themselves.
damn. i walked into that one.
Ayt, off to bed for me. Be back for the quiz. ;)
Dude, it's just a free wordpress blog...!
http://twitter.com/Larry_Carlson/statuses/5208325110
i remember saying something similar about spc..
To me they are getting very little from this test. They know the booster works. They get confirmation that the way it is bolted on works and that it separates when it is supposed to. Other than that all they get is confirmation that their instruments work. They are paying a lot of money for very little.
The shuttle which is a far more complex machine and radically different to anything else they ever flew had to have a crew on board for its first test because there was no way to land it remotely. If they can do that with the shuttle there should be no reason not to do it with this.
hmm. wonder what he has been eating...
14 minutes until nasa launch, but weather is changing a lot and so probably no go at this time. i found a nice site that shows nasa tv on the iphone if anyone needs it
Night Journeyer
i am going to get to a shuttle launch while i am in this country. next launch is november but not sure i will make that one.
see ya sir.
Something like the 9th or 12th of November I think.
My eyes! My eyes!
You're right. Someone is definitely being paid by the hour for this silliness.
NASA now predicting 10 minutes of good weather. We may get a launch yet. The launch window closes in 40 minutes so if it doesn't fly by then they have to do it all again some other day.
there is a cool iphone app from nasa and it has ... well...almost everything i want, including a countrdown for the next launch. but the phone is busy with the video of ares right now...not that much is going on!
What the heck is that???
I remember one of the early astronauts being asked what he thought as he sat on top of a rocket for the first time. He replied that the one thought he couldn't get out of his head was that every piece had been supplied by the lowest bidder. Clearly he wouldn't need to worry about cost cutting now.
if you have to ask what something is, it's art.
The count will resume from T-4 minutes in 3 and half minutes. Weather is green and predicted to stay that way.
The next shuttle launch is now a week behind it's original schedule. Nov 16th at 2:28pm Eastern.
Countdown to re-start in 1 minute
T-4 minutes and counting.
T-3 minutes I think we are going to fly
yehah!
or blow up :)
looks good. 75 seconds
nasa.gov/ntv
T-2 minutes. We are in new territory
i thought the same thing :)
someone i know just got suspended from twitter, how random.
T-1minute
gimble check complete. best name
1`0 9 8 7
me ahead of you. it is going. live cam on the rocket!
opens ustream...
You always get that with NTV
Oooh why was that?
It's off the ground. Separation due at T+2minutes ish
10 miles up doing Mach2
i have no idea, i can't go to their account just says "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!"
my video froze but rocket still going.
Burn out of the SRM
they may have changed their name.
So did mine. Just separated then froze
crap, saw the separation,but was it supposed to happen that way?
love the shot of some guy playing with the computer.
No idea. It was due to happen then. The two parts had only just separated when my feed froze
when i clicked on their name on tweetdeck it came up with "oh dear, twitter says "user has been suspended"."
This is what I get for being on a work conference call at the same time.
not a good sign.
but nasa seems happy ish. but no visual confirmation yet from the people at the other end of the test.
ahh, boo,
well, they seem to be shaking hands and stuff in launch control, cheering, etc.
Perhaps they suspended themselves?
we were in the middle of a convo as well. oh well.
they said "sep..." and that was it for me. i guess the nasa feed was dodgy.
good signal throughout the entire mission, 360 seconds post launch, we should be under the main parachute but the signal is LOST
upper stage water impact has been confirmed. but just the upper.
They got it up and they got separation so that is all they really wanted.
but the confirmation "may have been missed" on the audio channel
"you all did frickin fantastic"
shake and bake?
Mine went on exactly the same syllable.
They are now reporting upper stage water impact. It was due to hit first as it is just a dummy so they planned to let it hit the water and sink. Clearly they didn't want to spend more on parachutes than necessary.
I took them three years to stick something on top of a shuttle booster?
new launch director so they just cut off his tie. hilarious.
They have always done that
I wasn't being obtuse – I know a couple of people who have decided to abandon Twitter.
In other news, Junk Mail Thursday has started early – Sky, Hewlett Packard and John Lewis marketing guff has invaded the inbox today.
They built that thing in 3 years?
I've been working on _MY_ rocket for 3 years, and it's nowhere near as big!
Of course, I'm slow.
All we are going to get now is NASA PR bull. NASA TV off.
And you haven't spent half a billion on it
i know its a tradition - i have just never seen it before.
better go do all my paperwork for the new job orientation,. see you all later.
later sir.
just watching the replay.
did you hear arnie did a 'james may':
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/28/MNBN1ABKB8.DTL
new turn-by-turn navigation free from google. probably can't be squeezed onto the g1 though :(
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-google-maps-navigation-for.html
I don't like this quiz: http://theuniverseas.com/how-useful-are-you-take-this-technology-quiz
If you were to travel 2000 years into the past, how useful would you be in jumpstarting technological advancements? This 10 question quiz will help you figure out your technological usefulness.
Apparently I would get as far as the 15th century.
better than me. only the 10th.
Yeah, I'm not that good.
Wow. I know stuff!
Genius.
On a sobering note, here's why I'm not too sure about circuits where the spectators are right on top of the action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBe_5HuKgjg
Or that good
:P
I am technologically useful. Yay!
Quite good. Starting from the year 0 , you might be able to advance civilisation to the 17th or even the 19th century. You are technologially useful.
I would have expected to be able to get from the 19th century to now rather than from zero to there. In some ways I am disappointed
I got that too! May have been some lucky guesses involved.
For me, replace good with bad. and replace '17th or even the 19th century' with '4th century. Just scrap the last sentence all together
No wonder I can't find my own blog, I belong in the dark ages
15th century. That quiz is OBVIOUSLY crap!
Nope.
But it might blow up spectacularly, so there's that!
I got the same, I sort of expected more.
Just testing if I can live comment from work
It appears I can :)
yay!
Evening all. Am now reaching the hyper stage of exhaustion, i think i'm going to have a night in doing some writing!
I'm in the 15 centruy as well.
I tweeted this a few times but it is worth playing ;) http://www.canabalt.com/
Why would you do that to me!?
I've only just got to the last few levels of Meeblings 2 and then you dump that on me! pah!
Must.resist...
oh what the heck ;)
*hides*
Played it before. Got 6000ish when everything just went right at that one go.
Useless the rest of the time, bloomin addictive game tho
Hullo :)
Hey guys, 'sup?
Lukeh, TM, *nods*
RG, I worked out who you actually are. Gawd bless that Wiki. 'sup G?
The Beeb will be broadcasting a review of the season on Saturday November 7th at 1pm: http://uk-tv-guide.com/programme-details/BBC+1+Midlands/7+November+2009/13:00/F1+2009+Season+Review/Motoring/
That thing is awesome. I'm good, you?
Good evening everyone. I have had a day and a half!
Rubens in Abu Dhabi! :) http://twitpic.com/na8up
I've just arrived too. Hello one and all!
You would think that he has been on sooooo many grids that he doesn't need another picture.
quiet tonight...
Shh, we're eating.
That's what you think!
I think they are all just getting revved up!
Does anyone not doubt that Rubens is going to Williams and Nico is going to Brawn? It would be useful to know who much of this gossip is believed.
Nobody doubts that. That's the most solid rumour after the Alonso to Ferrari one.
Thanks so that makes rumours of Nico to Mercedes only a remote possibility. I am not convinced that Macca will fork out what Kimi+management want, so unless they drop their demands I cannot see Kimi at Woking.
It makes a lot of sense to see Kimi at McLaren. And a lot of people want to see Kimi at McLaren. But that doesn't make it so.
The only facts about Kimi are:
1) There is no way Kimi left Ferrari without knowing where he was going next
2) Toyota made a play for him and he didn't bite
So... Where does that leave us? A lot of people say that means he's going to McLaren. It doesn't make it so.
Three possible fits with the facts are:
1) He is going to McLaren
2) He is going to another team?!?!?
3) He's going rallying
4) He has decided to retire / take a year off
I still like option 1 the best, but liking something doesn't make it so.
unsuprisingly i refuse to believe it
Evening! :D
How is everyone this evening?
Rubens is staying at Brawn.. as is Jenson... not that i'm biased... :)
Evening Lou! and Lukeh for that matter!
I am having a much better evening than I had day!
oh hello there :p
aw see with me... it's the other way round.. but both have been lovely :)
I thought similarly at first, but I am not so sure now. We know Kimi+Management wanted 25 million Euro as contract buyout (that seems fairly clear initial expectation). I think Ferrari said sure, if you do not drive for another team next year. If he drives for another team his payout is considerably less. So Kimi is wanting any new team to match his Ferrari payout.
Personally I think Lewis will so outperform Kimi that he will look as if he should have retired. My reasoning, Felipe scored more than double the points Kimi had scored up to the point of the accident this season. Few people consider Massa in the same category as Lewis, hence Kimi will probably look hardly better than Kovy.
:)
This discounts the fact that Kimi and Massa like different kinds of cars. Lewis and Kimi like the same kinds of cars.
So what have you been up to today?
i've been to good old London :) always guaranteed to put a smile on my face :)
That would be my hope, sadly hope and reality do not necessarily coincide. Having said that my new work premises for next year are much better than I had thought or hoped for - as I got to see them today and I am very excited. I almost entirely got my way with influencing the architect and contractor to designing the facility I will be managing. It looks absolutely stunning!
Ah... I see... Excellent!
So Lukeh... Been anywhere nice today?
That is true - do you really think Ferrari would have designed a car more suited for their number 2 (and cheaper driver) than their number one. Other point is Kimi has stipulated a maximum number of publicity appearances for the team (which is a lot fewer than would normally be expected of an F1 driver). It did not go down very well with Macca.
Yes... Massa favours the Schumacher and Badoer style.
But without Ron?
Didn't show with Badoer - but it is a valid point and I think it should suit Alonso's style as well.
Martin certainly has a more relaxed management style than Ron but they still like to work their drivers on the image building. If Kimi has to do less than Lewis, Lewis will be upset (and rightly so). I think Lewis and Kimi are not right as team mates. Still think Lewis will slaughter Kimi.
I know he's slower in total but they always said the reason he was supported so long was because if they listened to Badoer Michael would be happy.
Not saying he won't, but it will be interesting.
I for one would like as my ideal offering for next year...
Brawn - Same
Red Bull - Same
Ferrari - Alonso + Massa
McLaren - Lewis + Kimi
And for all 4 teams to be close.
I think that would be a pretty good season.
As I understand it Michael is not very good at car set-up so they often used Rubens advice/setup.
So what excitement is everyone up to this evening?
That is certainly not the eight best drivers on the grid.
Lukeh is probably still on the train... he came to london too :)
homework and house drama script writing... fun! :) what about you?
Hello lou!
I saw London on your fb and thought i'd come say hi!
Happy lou?
Don't forget Glock in that Renault *bias mode on*
Heya :) yes, a very happy lou :D
watching dr who at the mo. Good episode, but rubbish ending!
i have come to a revelation that clock changes increase road accidents.
i've been sat in a three accident related queues mon, tue and now wed. i think the sudden darkness confuses people, because prior to this week i haven't been sat in a queue for about 3 weeks.
naturally! woop
sorry, I mean rrrrrubish!
bad day, or good evening?
I'm finally doing my report on the nightclub industry...fuuuun
So say you have 4 teams like that 8 slots... which drivers do you put in?
Excellent!
I am doing 3 different bits of work for Sidepodcast!
Bad day!
new show?
2 bits to do with the parade lap. And 1 guest post!
I am practising my multi-tasking too :)
Christine forund something interesting earlier. How far could you advance technology if you were transported back 2000 years.
awesome!! :D can't wait!
:D ooo.. see i find multitasking hard sometimes... :(
Ooooh, thats a good question. Best 8 drivers on the grid:
Hamilton, Raikkonen. Massa, Alonso. Button. Vettel. Rosberg (controversial), Kubica.
Glock a close 9th.
I very nearly bought my first ever apple product today....but it wasnt in stock...gutted
Hello all, just catching up, there appear to be a couple of spam items on the drop. My evening has consisted of listening to the latest Radio Free Skaro podcast & eating Green Thai chicken soup from M&S which I will also have for my dinner as it is so good ;)
What did you want?
i blame fourstar.
Looking for rumours ahead of the quiz in half an hour
An ethernet cable extender. I don't even know if Apple do them, but i couldn't find them anywhere else, so i went into the Apple shop and the Apple man says they dont stock them.
Booo
an ipod?
I heard that Nando is going to FIF1
I am confident that in doing so, your day has improved dramatically :)
nah, my zen works fine for the mo
oh.... not an ipod then..
Relating to Timo ;)
Oh *ahem* i heard that Timo, oh no, i mean i know that Timo is amazing and the best F1 driver in the history of the world!
FACT!
Here is my thoughts
I think Kimi will sit out the year or try rallying (and get the full Ferrari pay out - he seems to like money)
Brawn Jenson and Nico (sad that Rubens is going since Mercedes will get their way)
Red Bull (same as this year)
Ferrari (announce Felipe and Fernando)
McLaren Lewis and Nick (Mercedes gets a German driver, Lewis does not have Nico or Kimi as a team mate and will be happy and Martin in his own words gets the most under-rated F1 driver at a bargain basement price)
Williams Rubens and new Nico (Weber has let it out).
Toyota (who knows - except they will end up with Kamui if he does well this weekend)
Force India (same as at the end of this year)
Renault (Robert and Timo)
BMW Sauber (won't be on the grid) - Sorry RG.
Toro Rosso - keep Buemi and will only keep Tim if he brings good sponsorship
Jarno and Kovy will be joining new teams - Jarno Lotus, and I think Kovy may get a seat at Manor.
Football should be banned in all countrys ever, if no, it should definitely be banned from being played outside my room
OI!
:P
Hello
Hey Pat :)
I do love how that comes posts after I called him the 9th best driver on the grid :D
How long a cable do you need? Play.com seem to do one which is 30m and another which is 50m long
I've accepted that. I'm planning a very sad voicemail on the Sunday after the race
Nearly quiz time, I'm rather tired so I don't htink I'll do well...
Indoor football is awesome.
Slightly dangerous, but awesome
For a starter Mark is certainly not a top eight. He is mediocre and something of a liability on the track. Nick is a much more talented driver. Not sure that Felipe is really a top eight either - somewhat scruffy driver that is faster than he should be. Vettel cannot overtake - same as last year but is seriously fast but I think the Red Bull was easily the best overall package this year, especially once they got the double diffuser. I still think Timo and Robert are as good as the eight you mention.
Evening.
They exist, we've bought some in at work once.
http://www.cables2u.co.uk/rj45-ethernet-network-cable-extension-p-765.html
I am not convinced Nico is as good as Nick - he has had terrible luck in the last three races.
Singapore - he was flying in qualifying - definately would have been top four then Rubens crashes and yellow flags. Then they find the car fractionally underwight due to a mistake with the ballast - then Suttil T-bones him.
Japan - was in a strong fourth place ahead of Kimi and a long pitstop drops him behind Kimi and then a safety car came out and Nico cheated by speeding through the yellow flags so dropped again.
Brazil - like other drivers (Vettel and Hamilton) his qualifying did not go well. From 18th on grid he got to 10th and was 2/10ths faster than Vettel (who finished fourth) but the team did not get any fuel into his tank. Certainly fourth of fifth could have been secured.
Oh no they do those, but it's the extenders i need. So it's basically a long ethernet cable but one of the male ends is female.
yeah have seen them on hte internet like that, but hoped i could get one from a local shop intead, but it appears not!
just buy a female to female joiner (or two) and more cable
They're not easy to get hold of in shops, unless B&Q do them (if they do, be prepared to pay over the odds for it)
Do you know if there is a Maplins local to you?
yeah am discovering. i think ill just get it off the internet
not within walking distance
Evening!
evening Gavin
GMT reference next to Name on SPC would be awesome because it pretty much is my whole Internet, but it still doesn't fix the problem of people talking about an event that isn't near them and not referencing GMT.
Yes, I do love that GMT thingy. We have a system, let's encourage more people to use it!
Sorry to anyone that is annoyed by my GMT ranting and raving
So you only swapped 2?
Well he has just gone on holiday for 2 and half weeks. Today was his last day. Can't really blame him though.
Hi
Just my thoughts on the best 8 drivers
It really has :)
Quiz is getting under way, big field tonight, should be fun:
http://www.pitlanefanatic.com/chat.php
did anyone ask what made your day so average? Is it rude to ask?
Nobody did ask. But it wasn't average. It was bad.
Just a number of rubbish work things on top of each other. All at once. With bells on!
That must have made it really annoying
The worst thing bar none about today is that in my office there is currently a high pitched whine because one of the smoke detectors isn't working properly. Apparently a man is going to come and fix it tomorrow. Which better happen or else!
health and safety should be required to send you home?
No hammer?
but would have though Jenson at the end of last year after scoring only three points?
Best two drivers are Lewis and Fernando, I would say Fernando better but this could change if Lewis made fewer mistakes.
Thereafter I cannot say. I think Robert is as good as Kimi and I think Nick is as good as Jenson. I am sure Timo is as good as Nico. I cannot really place Vettel since he cannot overtake - he probably is as good as Massa who is not a great overtaker.
I think that is probably my top 10 - but Jarno can drive fast - he was faster than Fernando when they were team mates until Flavio stuffed him around. I am sure Sutil is very fast but he makes too many mistakes - similar situation for Buemi.
Gotta watch the fumes, man!
You have my sympathy. This week (all week) we have had someone about 50 yards away from our building extracting rivets from timbers on a bridge with an air powered tool. It's really loud & continuous & annoying & we don't know when it will end
Yes... Hmmm... If they don't fix it tomorrow... There will be trouble.
Anyone here heard of Pippa Man?
Yes.
Last two weeks at school we had three fire alarms. Only one was a drill, someone knocked over a bunsen burner in one and the other someone forgot how to use a toaster
...nope.
omg that must have been soo irritating! we once had a double history lesson with a similar noise.. only it was the high pitch wirrr of the broken projector. it nearly drove us all mad. i hope it's fixed by the time you come into work tomorrow :)
never heard of it!
who?
Did Indy lights this year. Not very succesfull I must add.
Do you mean Pippa Mann? (that's what google suggested anyway)
British and a girl in the IRL from my brief googling
@Gavin
Did you get your LinuxMint working? I feel a bit bad - but it has never let me down before as the easiest intro to Linux.
Before that she wasn't very successful at Renault World Series. She is a very good tweeter though and has a great Q&A with Pressdog.
is franck getting her drive? otherwise, not bothered :)
Evening!
My day has been so good... I love this city!
:)
Hi. Pics or it didn't happen?
I have a feeling this may not be the way her career is described on her website ;)
:P
1 sec...
i must find a way to upload pics to twitter..
I dont want to get in trouble for turning the drop into my holiday album!
Still at work trying to install new graphics cards and their drivers into 30 PCs boring. It came with Windows drivers but for Linux boot-up it has been playing around to see which Nvida driver will work.
course you can.
looking at pipa mann's video on her site. It's a video from her team. Half way through and they haven't mentioned her yet! Still interviewing van da garde.
I saw another Mclaren... http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/imag0098
And a Ferrari! http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/imag0099
Hehe awesome :D
I did see a new ferrari California this evening but couldnt get a decent pic (not that any of my pics are good, but hopefully they can be deciphered!
She's a British racing driver in Indy Lights this year (feeder series to Indycars).
I like to join fan clubs and groups for up and coming racing drivers - it's my way of supporting these guys and finding out what they are up to. I especially follow the lady racers because I would love to see one become really successful.
So anyway, I joined the Pippa Mann fan club the other day because she sounds quite cool (she tweets too). Didn't think much of it other than I might get the odd e-mail.
So my wife picks up today's post and tells me there is a letter from London. At first I thought it was a card for my birthday but I couldn't think who would have sent it...
So I open it up - and it's a letter personally signed by Pippa Mann thanking me for my support and enclosed was a signed picture too. :D
How cool is that? What a great idea!
I always hoped she'd do well but she can't seem to string together a good season.
Jenson question in the quiz. Just saying.
:D
Brilliant! Nice to see the personal touch from a racing driver
i take it back. i care about that, go pippa.
Thats a very green eco-friendly ferrari!
awesome i must join!
Yes I did - it was a problem with the disk!
It's awesome, although there are some things that don't work and I really don't understand the console stuff. But as a day to day system, it's really good and I will try and use it where possible ;)
Right now I am on the Eeee PC using Ubuntu Netbook remix :D
Thats awesome! I may join too :D
I joined up to the Jon Barnes fan club (ex FPA champ) and he sent me 3 A3 posters all signed. all really good pictures too
Fantastic! Maybe tweet about it?
I bought a CD from a singer/songwriter's website once and he included a handwritten note of thanks. No signed picture though!
Isn't it a great way to garner support?
I'm going to send her a thank-you message as I am her Facebook friend too. Go Pippa!
It totally is, and i followed him whilst he was GT racing too, and up until yesterday the posters were still on my wall!!
I might email her to get an interview!
Evening all. I have a new toy to play with. It's square and has an Apple logo on it. :D
Should try Easy Peasy on that EEE its an Ubuntu NetBook Remix especially for Asus EEE - a very neat OS - it looks better than the Ubuntu and everything just works.
Something fun for the evening, just saw this on twitter. If you replace the word "watch" in a you tube link with "warp.swf" it looks really cool like this http://www.youtube.com/warp.swf?v=6FU0QwHqXO0
will you swipe it?
just catching up on comments.. on this from last night:
They said they'd do a reality show but they never said when. For all we know it could be being recorded now and broadcast in March.
No.
Well I am only using this one because the Acer Aspire is being used as a video player right now (watching F2 on the big TV). So later I'll try it on that. I did try Moblin, which looks nice, but doesn't work!
Do you plug it into your TV? or plug a mouse and keyboard into it?
If they can't even do a proper website, what chance is there of a reality show ever happening?
Given their links with SPEED, I'd say pretty good.
But TBH, I don't see it happening. Where have you seen a series where you knew the winner before the show even began?
Both :)
Talking about websites:
The A1GP site is gone.
http://www.a1gp.com/
Ive watched F1 races...
Who says we will know?
f1 in 2002/2003/2004.
boo
Nah, at least you didn't know until the end of the first race. And you didn't know the winner until the end for 2003. ;)
Less so 2003. I bet you didn't think of Brazil 2003.
Moblin is too much of a developmental prototype - I could not get Open Office to work on it and gave up in disgust. It will get there but it is clearly more for keeping all your personal computing cloud together. If that is what you want then gOS is currently a better bet.
So that's it - A1GP's really dead now.
i still knew who would win the 'series'.
Not a good sign - guess they did not pay the service provider!
TBH, the website has been barely updated all year.
They need to use pigeons because they're faster than the internet, eh Rich?
I imagine they have some people chasing them, not the least being the Gold Coast council. I here that last weeks event was very quite without the open wheelers.
yea - and off course big boss of A1GP is a South African! I am trying to download updates and pigeons would certainly be faster even though it is coming from Italy.
I don't believe that - basing my experience on the NZ round of A1GP, where more people were interested in the local taxi racers than the A1GP cars!
Spot the difference for those not doing the quiz
http://i34.tinypic.com/207701y.png
Well, I have spoken to people who went. Not sure if it was the lack of A1 or the fact the Indy cars weren't there, but hey said it was much much quieter and a lot less people
and Black Beauty usually did rather well.
on that subject, question for you rich. does this page load quickly for you?
http://sidepodcast.com/archive/
Oh, you are Evil Incarnate!
The other car isn't a Ferrari?
#blameMav
Is the dropio broked?
I would suggest that it's more to do with the lack of IndyCars, but I am just guessing here ;)
tis okay for me?
thank you :)
i have....4
I tried emailing in some pics but no response so far...
Apparently a lot of corporate types didn't bother turning up either
About 30 secs not too bad.
thirty? yikes.
Hello again :)
Me too
hmm. it can be a little slow.
I got 4 in about 1/2 a minute.
Hey lukeh.
Have you heard its only 33/1 on that the Newcastle stadium could be called the Greggs Stadium?
Tastier stadium ever.
Ok, i will give you a verbal rundown...
I sat in the sun for a bit whch was nice
Then went to a mall and had lunch under a fake sky...
Followed by a quick jaunt though egyptian halls and under Persian and indian domes, before i passed a chinese ship...
I soon moved onto another mall... (where the ferrari and macca were)
Alison wasnt all that impressed with the sun earlier so I went for a quick ski in the snow for 2 hours...
i then got on a train with no driver before meeting my friend and had beers on the beach at sunset...
It was a great day, but it looses a little without the pics ;)
oh my goodness, can you imagine the back lash?
Least it would smell nice
Tell me about it. They ain't happy those Newcastle fans, and instead of important stories, they put the fact its changing the name of the stadium on the front of the evening chronicle
So i wake up and come to work and catch up on last nights comments and the first i see is no more gino! Could this be the best day ever?
?
did you go to dubai or disneyland?
I am trying to download Gentoo OS it is coming down at 24 KB/sec dueing the day it will drop to 2-8 KB/sec
I know Gentoo will not work but an uber Linux Geek has told I must try it so to pacify him I am attempting to download the Live DVD.
Do you get to experience the UAE at all? ;-)
staggering. i would move if my connection was that slow.
hehe It all sounds a little crazy but i have the pics!
You can't possibly have had time to do all that.
I used to be a newcastle fan (when i didnt know better and was easily led) and even i'd be livid if they changed the name.
Not bad for a Thursday. ;)
Excess Excess and Excess?
Ive covered the first two but decided to save visiting the worlds tallest building for another day ;)
Have you found a GP ticket yet?
Its amazing what happens without doohickey ;)
No chance... i know people who are going to just the concerts though :(
No re entry so i cant just use them for the race
:( so they couldn't just go for the concert and you for the race?
Same with spurs, we are going with a new sponsor. Seen a few things on the internet where its asking you to chip in a few quid to keep it as White Hart Lane
That's stupid. Really is.
to outer Mongolia perhaps? We were recently asked how to improve our scientific output so I suggested relocating to North Sentinel Island so we would have improved Internet access - he did not find it very humourous.
This is the country where homing pigeons are proven to be faster than the internet in getting big files to users.
they are sponsor tickets so no... not sure about the normal ones...
That is Dial-uptastic, isnt it?
@me
One think that slows down your site for us is woopra
i must go to work now, but i leave you all with this question:
what Apple equipment did Andy buy? (Has this been answered and I've missed it skimming the comments?)
one second. i shall remove from that page, see if it helps.
assuming a mini?
Mac Mini I guess.
Must be, if it is square
I would just like to take this moment toó tell you all that i'm in a very good mood!
That is all
I tested out our Intranet by sending my dog across campus to a mate of mine with a usb stick with a 200 MB file attached to the collar and he tried to down the same file from our server - Red got there faster.
That's good to hear :)
ok, if you do a hard-refresh on this page (or clear your cache), woopra should be gone:
http://sidepodcast.com/archive/
does that make much difference?
:-)
me too!
yay! me too :D
was it the pic of the mclaren or the ferrari bike? ;)
So am I!
I got a free ticket to an audience with steven moffat today. I'm inn a very good mood!
that sucks :( it's not even that good a line up..
What? where?
yay that lots of people are in good moods!! :D
Cleared the cache and restarted my browser - took 4 secs! We do have a proxy server which I have no real control over.
yeyyyy!!!!!
It's an "everyday previous generation" Mac Mini 2.0GHz.
four seconds, down from 30 seconds??
blimey. ok, we'll pull woopra from all the pages. it's costing us money now, so not that fussed about it anymore.
Good for you all. I'd love to be in a good mood, but I have nothing to put in any sort of mood at all
For Paul:
I'm in an excellent mood :D
Extreme jealousy from this household.
What's woopra?
Awesome!
It's only because I'm working in the festival he's at!
I have noticed that when pages load you see the various connections and woopra is always a bit of bottle neck .
realtime stats software, tells us how many people are browsing right now. unlike google which will tell us what happened yesterday.
Is he a comedian?
not a problem. it'll take a while to remove, but it's on the list.
Does it not give you statistics about usage?
Awesome!! :O
Ahhh. Fair enough.
you can have some of my happiness... i have loads of it tonight! :D
I'm thinking I should bring a camera...
yeah, it was fun when it was free. but unless you have someone montioring it full time, it's not value for money.
It seems like I'm in a good mood then :D
wooooooo
One of the up and coming bands I've been following are playing in Leeds next Friday, with Frankmusik I think. I have to go.
Screen sharing is ace :)
Who is it?
I was annoyed at missing a gig the other week.
:D hehe
does this help? :)
ooh, never mind the buzzcocks is on!
aaahhh, super good mood now, thanks ;)
Jon Richardson is on it this week!! :D
;)
go on! go on! mock the people without tv licences ;)
I missed the intros. Who's jon richardson?
:P watch it on iplayer in an hours time :P
oops, sorry!
:O he is a comedian, he has a podcast and everything.he's the one in the white church right of phil
Heads We Dance.
They're not on the mainstream radar yet, but I reckon they'll get there.
aha its ok, even if i did i'd have to watch it on here because theres no tv signal around, but there isnt enough bandwidth to watch live programs
white church!!!!! ?? what?? i meant shirt...
this is what happens when i multi task...
waitwaitwait
he only has a podcast because his co-host pulled out of it :P
I'm still wondering what you mean. Is it shirt?
fair enough... :( i miss russell howard's podcast..
hasn't he got his own bbc3 show now?
I listened to frankie boyle's podcast. Very disturbing... glad he only did one!
yep, but his podcasts were brilliant.
they did work quite well, but they were one of the many podcasts that had to be cut when i hit the insane levels of unlistened to podcasts that i used to have!
Yep. It's like Harry hill's tv burp, but about the news instead of tv programs
So am I - here is a pic of my new Research Lab for Remote Sensing and the post-graduate training facility - it has taken two years of planning and fighting to get to this point and it is the first time I have been able to see them with my own eyes.
Hehe jay leno has a more awesome version of 'star in a reasonably priced car"
he has a proper track, obsticals and interviews the person whilst they are driving... Its brilliant!
Ah, the open plan place you were talking about before..
not that i want to burst your bubble or anything (woo go Rich)
but isnt that just lots of tables stacked on top of each other? and then the top ones upsidedown?
or am i missing something?
They were brilliant together ... but sadly JR is no good on his own... :(
I see from twitter 5live seem happy with the track :D
f1scoop says this is Lotus doing windtunnel testing. In Italy. Why there?
never heard them, i am subscribed to (checks) about 40+ podcasts, i need to cut down not add more, but i can't, too addicted to podcasts
i still listen just cause Russell was so good with him on the show.. :(
Best available facilities?
hehe same i have way too many for the hours in the day i can spend listening to them so consequently i am behind in many.
Not the UK, then?
It's cheap and not getting much use?
Quiz results very soon
they let you in! tis nice.
They have been doing a lot of work there...
the more i read that guy the more i think its similar to GMM but doing it for Ego?
Heheh. You and RG have opposite thoughts, but I have the same reply - not in the UK, then?
Its open plan for the post grads and actually I do have my own office as in there is a glass door - we were kept in the dark as to what it would be like - I drew all of the floor plans including the curvy tables and the high roof I - everywhere else in the building it is boring cubicles. It is also partionable with folding glass doors so it can be opened up or made into discrete teaching areas depending on group size. But the six data projectors needed is a bit alarming.
i created a playlist for my ipod (albert, remember?) i call it my daily soundwave. a mix of albums and podcasts. it's up to 17 hours at the moment. it was up to a day long at one point.
Wavy tables with shelves above - they are computer work stations each computer has two monitors and we will use Shuttle computers on the sleves to increase work surface. I had to work to 2.54 sq m per person.
Congrats Journeyer!
I should put my procrastination to some good use!
Boo. Mac Minis would have looked very nice :)
Oh for goodness sake! It's quiet all evening and then as soon as i want to get some recording done upstairs turns the music on! BOO
do it tomorrow
oh no!
You want to get you friend in there and get him to pull their Red Cord!
To make you happy the actually GIS lab (photo with big Window that looks on to Table Mountain (which you cannot see because of cloud) will use my existing 24 inch iMacs - but running Linux.
clearly you don't remember the second half of the story ;) the half where the reset button didnt work at the alarm was still going off at 8am the next morning ;)
Dank and Alia, I have updated links to yours
Thank you. {Comment #557}
Hopefully I will soon be able to return the favour by knowing which of my blog spaces is going to get content going forward. Still having problems with the Wordpress one and still waiting to hear if I can have my F1H one back...
If you can get it downloaded before the apocalypse. ;)
didn't we fix wordpress?
Err, yes, I missed that bit. Were you smiling to him through gritted teeth? (that would have been my option, after a few choice words)
nono, i found it hilarious. i've spent a month trying to avoid pulling it!! but now i know that would be a stupid idea!
Anyone going to buy james allens book? It appears to be 99% stuff you could read for free on his blog...
I see hes keen for people to spam his posts too...
Oh well, now hte musics changed, and its will young...i guess it could be worse
hmmm?
Really?
Here are the questions and answers for the quiz:
http://www.pitlanefanatic.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1479
note - answers don't seem to be hidden this time
oh i see. trackbacks for the win then.
True but I get there it just takes patience - here is pic of the Shuttles - just as cute as Mac Minis and you can customise the graphics on the front panel
http://twitpic.com/9a9zo
ok ok maybe not
hes giving 10 books away to the people who posted the most comments.
I have read though his comments quite a lot and i am sure 8 of those people just post
"spot on james" or "great post james" on each and every one
he should offer them to the most insightful, or those who's questions he couldn't answer.
Evening everyone. I have created the plug to end all plugs for the Parade Lap for Sunday...
A small trailer :)
Hope you like it:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/paradelapextravaganza-mov
How about if I post Hand Gestures on every post?
Teletubbies, Mr Blobby, West(cover)life, i could go on.
free book for bassano? ;)
oh my actual goodness. Alex = Awesome
They are quite cute.
omg! from alex:
am I mising something here, Parade lap sunday? :D
Either that is some proper planning, or Giggles went to Paris again.
That is brilliant
ahahahahah! OMG! Giggles! that is awesome!
He must be short of a bob-or-two since losing the commentary gig?
The book in a sense smells of pure laziness.
mega.
The parade lap..... and that?
Good news, I may catch the first 5 minutes
go giggles!
uber mega
i am watching it again! very funny :)
we should all do the same.
Talking about websites:
The A1GP site is gone. {Comment #817}
Now there's a bad sign if ever I saw one...
I didn't know there even was a parade lap
there is a parade lap!
I dont think i will be able to phone in given the high charges for intl calls here :(
It was just in case planning :)
Hmmm...
Buy the Best of RG CD today and listen to all of your favourite RG comments, read by the one and only, RG
that's why he did the plug!
(but seriously, I didn't know either)
Seems there's another unpaid bill....
That's why I needed to do the trailer :)
Indeed. All the way to Paris for a link, that's dedication.
Less so 2003. I bet you didn’t think of Brazil 2003. {Comment #823}
Even Eddie didn't think of Brazil 2003 - in the team principals' meeting on the Friday of that particular weekend, EJ attempted to back up his stance that costs were too high in F1 (some things never change...) by saying that no privateer team was ever going to win another F1 race...
lol at bassano.
should have had Mr C's waving hand from Sidepodradio though ;)
that was awesome
The tru reason why he is, the king of plugs
Right and on that note... I must go to bed.
Honestly. Doing stuff for Sidepodcast is the best medicine :)
Turn a bad day into a good day, by commenting on / writing a guest post for / updating the wiki on / creating a trailer for, Sidepodcast :)
i missed out on the original orange drill day, so that was a nice addition :D
Night Alex!
I really wanted to but rendering the video from there or even last years Parade lap finale would have taken more time than I had. Soz!
Niight
hehe. night sir. this'll be the best parade lap ever!
I hope we can live up to the hype ;)
Night again everyone :)
night Alex
no need to apologise, it is a mega trailer :)
and you used the same music I used in my multi-media extravaganza to promote our department and recruit more students.
Mr Bunny sir, how exactly do you want this? Fast? Slow? reflective? Shouty ;) ?
Wow!
didn’t we fix wordpress? {Cmment #974}
Yes. And now it won't even load on my computer :(
I'm going to comment about it on his blog. He'll probably not have the balls to approve it, much like 99% of my other comments when I point out the error of his ways. But hey ho...
er, try them all? Reflective sounds best though :)
haha, i dont even know what that means. ill try a few and send ya a couple of diff ones
boo. i'm pretty nothing has changed their end, presumably you've tried all browser / another machine?
Night!
sounds good to me
oh, but...
Like me you are passionate about Formula 1 and this can be measured by the quality and quantity of your comments. Our record for one post was over 300 comments!
i guess your comments overfilled the measuring jug?
my itunes dj has thrown up army of lovers. anyone heard of them?
yup. ex mtv vj used to be the singer. i forget his name but he had a beard.
Yo 'sup. Had a productive day, did we?
i have no idea on names. i had the greatest hits comp (yes, they had hits, mostly in europe though i'm guessing)
are you cooking more things? :P
well past bedtime for me... night all!
Night Nick!
That was quite scary...
Plugged in my ipod, and iTunes went absolutely mental. Popups everywhere asking if I want to delete or replace the library, froze my laptop, eventually leading to it crashing and just... going off ;_;
night Nick
a full tray of cupcakes/muffins ?
Night Nick
Night Nick, hey TM
i'm heading for bed too.
night all
Night! You'll have them with you within the next 10 minutes
night startledbunny!
Uh oh.
It's fine now. iTunes just had a hissy fit is all.
Niight!
Windows 7 not the amazingness that it appeared to be then eh ;) :P :D
I blame Apple for this event ;)
Vista loves iTunes on my computer :P
does this mean you want a mac because mac's are better than microsoft/windows... :P
http://apple.com/getamac/ads
yep, we get it.
iTunes must be the spawn of the devil. I absolutely LOATH it, it's just too overblown, and Apple must be stopped from making it compulsory for updates to iPods on Windows. Basically, to have a working iPod without hassle you need a Mac.
itunes is amazing though! it's all so straight forward and simple.. and awesome...
i want a mac :(
I'm not sure that's true, although I wouldn't mind. Have you ever tried reinstalling iTunes on a machine running Vista? It took me over an hour the other day.
i took a quizy thing earlier to win an acer laptop, but when i finished it, it put me into a draw for £500 instead....i went "oooh, i could buy a mac instead of having to sell the acer that i wouldnt want ;)"
The one time I had to recently use iTunes I just wanted the thing to die a painful death with as many broken ribs as possible. It's hideous!!!
<3 Lou :)
I know I ain't a fan of apple and that, but that just froze me firefox for a few mins :(
On your computer maybe, but not on mine, or my home one, or my dads, or brothers.
I'm an itunes user and im a PC ;)
Wooo, go Jon!
Anything Apple makes should stay on an Apple surface. Anything Apple makes for Windows AVOID AT ALL COSTS! Quicktime's gob*****, Safari's inexcusably laughable, and iTunes I've mentioned is like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs humping at your hard-earned expense.
i honestly really want a mac, each time i go into an apple store, or even pass one i'm transfixed by the awesomeness... one shiny awesome macbook pro would be lovely..
I feel the same way about Vista with it's User Account Control getting in the way (every time I tried to create a new folder for crying out loud).
I think TM needs a bit ol' Window's shaped Apple hug.
HUUUUUUUUUUG
;) :D
wow, you work fast. thank you very much, i hope you like the results. :)
(and away i go again)
Same here. it works for me and (acts like a robot) i'm a pc and i'm (robot noise) 30 bleep years old (robot noise)
then change the settings. tis doable.
I'd accept the hug on one condition. Buy me a Mac.
I'm avoiding report writing ;) of course i'm fast :P
Only if you buy me 3 first
Do you say that to everybody you meet or just the female fraternity? :P
I'm sensing the Apple dislike pouring out of this room
Patience my dear, patience. Wait until you can go in clutching your University Student ID :)
I saw a Macintosh for £20 in my Cash Generator the other day, wonder if they've got any more hiding....
Am pretty sure startledbunny is a guy...so that dissproves hte later :P
I wasn't allowed to.
I haven't been around long enough to know who's what, so I play innocent on that one. :P
But it's still £600!! :(
The apple shop came and camped in our Students Union last week for a day, the guy said to me "with student discount its now only £6xx" :(
Which model? I'm guessing something quite old.
How much is a new windows one?
The one i'm on right now was £400 and it was quite a decent spec for that price
I'd say "under £700".
and then they'd go "oh" then walk off dissapointedly ;)
i get 1100 a term.
If i bought a Mac, i'd have to guy logic too, so thats another £100+...i wonder if i can live for a term on £300?
hmmm
*Get
i have to wait a year!! :( i hope my laptop lasts till then..
you don't need logic.
ah yes, i remember. what mac program would you use if not for logic?
ouch! next year is going to be an expensive one!!! i will probably need a mac though... well not need... but really really like one for uni, seeing as i'm hoping to do photography..
I've recorded something for lou to give her a taste of university life on a wednesday but drop.io wont upload! boo
Garageband does podcast production pretty well. Audacity is also good and free. Logic costs £399.
only one way to find out!!
garageband is installed for free on all new macs i think.
You'll need Aperture as well.
*other photography apps are available.
oh.. is it going to frighten me off? because i'm freaking out at the fact i have to choose one soon anyway...
Yes. Along with iPhoto, iMovie and iWeb (and iDVD)
alls im saying is...dont come to Bucks ;)
but.. what about photoshop.. i like photoshop, i understand it! i'm not going to buy a mac and get used to that as well as Aperture :P
okay :D
I support this photoshop love
You need that for the first week! (Don't worry, it gets cheaper after that)
(introducing some noise in the discussion)
my ubuntu was £0 ;-)
hi sidepodpeople
stealing/being given dosent count ;)
:P
howdy.
I needed 3DS Max for the 3D Design module I was doing, as I couldn't make it in to the university often enough to use the machines that had it. The lecturer actually actively said "go download it".
True, but they're not workflow tools (except Lightroom). Have you seen Pixelmator? Beautiful, powerful and less than £40
http://bucksracing.webs.com/dearlou.wav
Welcome to the wonderful world of sports night whilst living in a courtyard
P.s i cant understand a word anyones saying, so if there are naughty words in there (but i dont think there are) then appologies in advanced
boo. i’m pretty nothing has changed their end, presumably you’ve tried all browser / another machine? {Comment #1032}
Tried IE, Firefox and Opera on this machine. Yet to try any other machines. The trouble is that I'm not sure there's much point if it's going to break on me every single time I want to do anything with it...
3ds student licence is less than £70 isn't it?
well... sounds lovely!
understood. it really isn't broken. joe's been blogging today for example, but it's probably more effort than it's worth to figure it out.
They don't do student licences, and I wasn't granted permission to "borrow" a licence the university had for my use. I went and acquired it by other means. Should really uninstall it though, I haven't used it since.
mmmm :(
lightroom was what i was thinking of.
both christine and i have pixelmator licences too.
Aperture is a workflow tool, it doesn't replace Photoshop, it works alongside it. I've moved from just using Photoshop to Aperture and Photoshop Elements. Aperture manages my photos so I don't have to remember which folder contains originals and where my edited pictures are.
pretty well. outside it's raining since monday, so momentarily I join the majority of the sidepodworld in saying 'outside is BAD'
:( i feel bad.. all i can hear here is the cars on the main road next to our house and the whirring of my laptop... but they are fine... compared to that :(
oh... sounds complicated.. i may stick with my pc for a bit then...
they used to up until v7. wonder why they stopped?
maya is free for non-commercial use too, right. or did they change that too?
dont worry, they're gone now. they dont last very long, they are very drunk so they wear themselves out quickly
it certainly is :)
Probably because they weren't making any money out of it. The standard that year was Max 2008.
Maya's completely different to Max, Blender also. I've yet to see a Blender GUI that resembles Max both aesthetically and functionally.
My Pardus - which is about the best looking OS I have ever seen (Mac included) cost £0
Autodesk recently lost a case in the US where they tried to stop someone selling used copies of their software. He argued that what he was doing was perfectly legal because he wasn't installing the software himself and then selling on the discs. The judge agreed and threw out the case.
*from sleep*
Mine was too... It was a complete rip off!
time for sleep, it's been a busy day :)
night all! x
niight
I shall point you in the direction of this comment (yeyyyy preview button wooo) whilst saying
I'm doing UCAS again too!! wooo
night lou
Night lou
but you're not 500 pounds poorer at least... ;-)
Are you serious? That's a brilliant argument for overpriced overblown software! :D
I won't hear of it. Outside is awesome!
I really like not going out but I must tell myself the above everyday or I would be a complete hermit. Plus, I live in Australia, near the beach. Summer rocks!
It's not. It makes organising pictures so much easier and faster. Next time you find yourself in an Apple Store, ask for a demonstration.
apple.com/aperture
UCAS sucks!!! (is gone)
It's GREAT! seriously, if it werent for ucas, you'd ahve to fill in a set of ucas forms for each uni
It's OK where you are, although I hear some parts of Australia were made when God had run out of all the colours except brown and blue ;)
I would normally agree with you and I will in a month or so (I hope less). but right now, it's been pouring since thursday (except for a sunny sunday and a lovely snowfall on friday...)
great rallying out there. It just takes a while to get there in the first place
Search for Vernor vs Autodesk.
#facts
Jet lag keeping you awake sucks
Hellooooo! I enjoy being right :D
hi alison
Surely you're always right?
the secret is not to sleep the night before (or do it just for a couple of hours). after that you're so tired that you adapt to any time zone ;-)
Well now you mention it..... :P
I was extra right this time. It was very satisfying because they were so facetious!
I did that! 2hrs the night before I flew...
Hello all, ready for the world series?
I'm confused. Don't you normally sit up half the night anyways? Why is it bothering you now? :(
Before I get sucked into a regular routine, I'm gonna go to bed! Night all!
feel free to tell me how awesome I am ;)
then my magic solution only works on me... :-(
I love it when that happens.
night TM
Don't worry, you'll soon be up at 1am like the rest of us :D Night
Hey guille and Alison
hi joe
for a moment I thought 'why is the WSR running at night in the middle of the week?' :P
There is a voicemail on my phone from my girlfriend which goes...
"WHO WON A RACE WITH FACIAL HAIR?"
No just us Americans drinking beer and hating the name Yankees
Hehe it.sometimes works... not always
I didn't realise it started tonight. I must find a stream somewhere
Hmmmm I tried being nice to you. It didn't work out so well for me.
You again? A Yankees fan? Jeez
The rate the drivers are going this season, someone in Abu Dhabi will....
I need to be awake and enjoy the sun!
Today was awesome... I commented what I did earlier... :D
In the words of Homer: 'I'd never realized how boring is this game without beer...'
Our newspaper had a misprint yesterday that said the series started Tues, I was all giddy about being payed to watch the WS, but no...a misprint
Sounds like me
Bingo!
And you want me to what? Search??? Blimey.... At this time of night that might be pushing it.
But with the new sidepodcast search, it only takes a matter of miliseconds.
I was only trying to help!
Is your tummy better?
Have you found a link yet?
Try www.mlb.com
Nigel Mansell, Graham Hill. Or did she mean this year?
No
i think it was more of "Ive phoned 3 times already!! Where are you?" type
It's okay. I forgive you. I don't do sick days though. Don't have time :P
And yes, my tummy's fine now. I've twisted my knee though!
I found a stream. It's in Spanish so I guess I will get a language lesson as well
Oww.. How?
Is that Nick's fault as well
You can log that as "training", it's a fire department thing
I don't think so. I was being lazy and couldn't be bothered walking round a table to pick something up. I leaned over it, slipped and pushed my knee sideways against a chair. It must have been pretty funny to watch. I'll probably walk round next time ;)
It's so easy to do something like that
What does that mean?